Ash UK/US

your bed that is... Do you have a good old fashioned english duvet or an american style quilt and blanket?

I moved here 2 years back and using a quilt was driving me crazy in the winter on my last trip back to the UK I bought a 15 tog duvet and I love it The first week I just about cooked my hubby out of bed though.

Ash

Bob

Bundle of sheets and quilt and another blanket.
Much prefer the ole duvet, stuffed with feathers, and a decent feathered pillow

USBound

I'm on a stupidly expensive Duvet - 15 tog.. and I love it..

Manc

2 comforters, and I'm still freezing.

oshel

what is the difference between a comforter and a duvet? Is a comforter like a duvet in a sewn up cover? How do you wash this?

NC Penguin

Both me and my spouse brought our (British) quilts with us when we moved to the US. We also had the foresight to buy extra quilt covers. We're a quilt family.

Definitely don't want any goose feather/down filled bedding. I suspect I'm allergic to that kind of filling.

Even though it drops to below zero F at night I'm still using just a sheet and cotton blanket. I may need to use my quilt at some point. I'll see...





NC Penguin

Bob

I've love one, can't find them around here, and if I could, probably wouldn't be able to afford one

ScyLarc

We have sheets and a blanket and I hate them, my feet are always getting stuck in them and i feel trapped. I miss my duvet and can't wait for it to be shipped over. We tried buying a duvet over here but all we can find are comforters and they just don't seem to be the same thing.

Taffyles

American quilt and sheet (this is FL). I'd love a summer weight duvet but I don't think they make them in UK to fit our size bed (Calif King).

tinaflorida

Sheets and blankets here.

I miss my duvet. *sniff*

NC Penguin

I found that Linen n Things sells duvets and the accompanying covers (you have to buy them separately). Bed, Bath and Beyond sell them too but there's less choice and the quality is a little lower.





NC Penguin

USBound

for those people wanting Duvet's

see OverStock.com

they normally have a huge range of duvets at NOT tooo bad prices..

Bob

stupidly enough, I've checked that site out for gifts, but never even bothered to think about duvets *lol* though may have to wait till after all the x-mas shopping

NC Penguin

Put it on your Christmas wish list pronto and you might get a duvet in time for Christmas (and boy wouldn't a duvet be useful in Maine!).

OT Warning: my manager and her family are heading to ME for Christmas! If Dover-Foxcroft ends up on the local news, it wouldn't surprise me if her clan were up to something!




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Bob

Hehe...yeah, lots of sheets, quilts and blankets....but one thing, though this apartment sucks and is badly insulated, we don't have to pay extra for the heating, so that's stuck way up

And a wish list would be great, but most of the family aren't big on the internet shopping which is a shame...oh well...